, . - I .3 s· _ Heart.~reafure. even after the .truchof ~race is planted, before ·' ~~the toul be inlarged to a due capacity of fer– vice here, and heaven hereafter: The foul of ~r. Goo_d. aBeliever, faith one, is A hiH{e well-built, 'where w,n. faith laies the found~tion : hope helps up the Wlllls, k.nrnvledge fets open thQ windows, and lovecoverI . the roof, a19d this mak.;s a room fit fDr Chrij/; And I~ add, there mult be every day a {weep..; ing, and watching, and decking of this Houfe . with further degrees of grace, embdlifhing it with divine Ornarnenrs, and furniibing it : . and e~ery Room, I mean every faculty, with a rich rreafure of heavonly bldlings : it will ·' . be fome cofi and toyle to hang every room of the beanwith lively pitlures of the divine lmag~: for it is altogeth~r empty of that which is truly and !piritually good 1 or may be calied a Trea[ure : Bnt chats not all ; for 5. The.fou l is by patu.re filled with an e- ' vil rreafu·re : t[~e heart .is defpcratelie wic., ked, J er. 1 7· 9· every imagination of the l·houghts _ot mans heart is' only,and continu– ally evil, Ger1.6. 5· the n1ind, will and affeai- ·ons are fluffed with a world of blindndfe; hardtlt11e and . wildnefie: the{oul is natprally propenfe to evil, averfe togood, and there– ' -- fore a trea(ure of good is nccdfary to prepon- , derate and extrude this treafure of wicked– rie!le: ro fe:tfon and {cize upon the foul fo.r God, as fin did for Satan; the love of God is Rcm.s.f. to be Hied abroad intotho(e veines and Chan– Rcll)· :t..l, nels of the hcarc~wbcrc findid run witha vio- ·Jenr current ; the Cbrifiian is to be circumd- , fed in the mofi polluted 1)art: and certainI~, . 't s 1 .
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